237 W. 42nd St. (212-997-4144)—Nov. 20: The ska-punk of Southern California’s Aquabats. Nov. 23: L.A.’s early-eighties roots-rock pioneers the Blasters. Nov. 25-26: When twentieth-century blues musicians like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf plugged in, they put together bands that became prototypes for countless rock groups that followed. Hubert Sumlin was Wolf’s longtime guitarist, laying down iconic riffs on such classics as “Built for Comfort,” “300 Pounds of Joy,” and “Killing Floor.” He’s celebrating his seventy-seventh birthday in the company of John Sebastian, David Johansen, Jimmy Vivino,Levon Helm, and other admirers.

BLENDER THEATRE AT GRAMERCY

127 E. 23rd St. (212-307-7171)—Nov. 19: The Charlotte, North Carolina, native Anthony Hamilton grew up singing gospel, and he delivers his old-school R. & B. with a religious intensity.

BLUE NOTE

131 W. 3rd St., near Sixth Ave. (212-475-8592)—Nov. 25: Alice Smith, a local singer with a four-octave range, favors ambitious and insightful R. & B. that has an earthy flair and a sensuous edge.

BOWERY BALLROOM

6 Delancey St. (212-533-2111)—Nov. 19: Meat Beat Manifesto, one of the more adventurous bands to emerge from the British industrial scene, combined elements of techno, house music, old-school hip-hop, and rock and blazed a new trail in electronic dance music. The group’s most recent album, “Autoimmune,” shows that the talents of its mastermind, Jack Dangers, haven’t dulled. Excepter, a local outfit that makes unwieldy, psychedelic noise rock, opens the proceedings.

FILLMORE NEW YORK AT IRVING PLAZA

17 Irving Pl., at 15th St. (212-777-6800)—Nov. 21: The Nightwatchman is the Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello’s agitprop-folk alter ego. Let’s hope that he has been encouraged by the outcome of the election and will be in a less sombre mood than usual.

HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM

Manhattan Center, 311 W. 34th St. (212-307-7171)—Nov. 21: Seeing Brian Wilson these days can be a little uncomfortable: the too-broad gestures, the slightly dissociated speech. But he surrounds himself with a big, versatile group that can play—and sing—anything the Beach Boys ever did (Paul McCartney calls them “the best touring band in the world”). He’ll perform the entirety of his new record, “That Lucky Old Sun,” and some of his greatest hits.

HIGHLINE BALLROOM

431 W. 16th St. (212-414-5994)—Nov. 21-22: The Roches started out in the city, and it looks like they’re going to finish up that way, too: they’ve decided to stop touring. Luckily, the gently squabbling sisters will still carry their delicious, quirky three-part harmonies to the wilds of West Chelsea. They’ll be preceded by Suzzy and Loudon’s daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche, whose voice gains in richness with every outing.

JOE’S PUB

425 Lafayette St. (212-539-8777)—Nov. 21: Robin Holcomb and Flutterbox offer an evening of original, unusual tunes. The challenge is what to label it: Art-folk? Haiku-jazz? Holcomb, an inventive singer, composer, and pianist, was a driving force in the downtown music scene of the eighties before settling in Seattle. She’ll be playing old and new songs, accompanied by Doug Wieselman (on guitar, clarinet, saxophone) and Tony Scherr (on bass and vocals). Flutterbox is a duo: the composer Neill Cardinal Furio coaxes a wide array of sounds from the electric bass as Janine Nichols sings. Nichols describes Furio’s songs as “a cross between Neil Sedaka and Samuel Beckett.”

Broadway at 44th St. (212-307-7171)—Nov. 19: The red-state rockers Hinder play meat-and-potatoes grunge-informed music that clings to the clichés of the genre while subtracting its most exciting elements. It’s turned out to be surprisingly lucrative for them.

(LE) POISSON ROUGE

158 Bleecker St. (212-796-0741)—Nov. 22: The singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky. Nov. 23: Huun-Huur-Tu, a group of musicians from Tuva, a small republic in the southern-Siberian fold above Mongolia, practice the art of khoomei, or throat singing. With Hazmat Modine, a local group incorporating everything from harmonicas, tubas, drums, and lap-steel guitar work to trumpet playing. Huun-Huur-Tu even joined them on their début album, “Bahamut.”

SYMPHONY SPACE

Broadway at 95th St. (212-864-5400)—Nov. 22: Robyn Hitchcock. At some point during this show, featuring a revisit to his 1983 album, “I Often Dream of Trains,” Hitchcock will launch into a stream-of-consciousness monologue so complicated, cohesive, and funny that you’ll swear it’s a prepared bit. Then he’ll react to a statement from a bandmate or veer off cogently and poetically in a completely unexpected direction and you’ll have to admit that the guy really is that brilliant. His slightly psychedelic jangle-pop is great, too.

JAZZ AND STANDARDS

BIRDLAND

315 W. 44th St. (212-581-3080)—Nov. 19-22: The singer Tierney Sutton has a winning style and a striking presence, and the unity of her longstanding quintet is undeniable.

BLUE NOTE

131 W. 3rd St., near Sixth Ave. (212-475-8592)—Nov. 18-23: The Brazilian songsmith Ivan Lins delivers suggestive harmonies and buoyant rhythms that cut through the slickness of his pop-fusion presentation. He’s joined here by the eclectic quartet New York Voices. Nov. 24: Matthew Shipp, solo. The pianist Shipp was once part of the tenor saxophonist David S. Ware’s quartet and an integral component in orchestrating its celebratory squall. On his own, Shipp is capable of balancing his post-Cecil Taylor keyboard eruptions with lyric calm—or, depending on his mood, not.

DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA

Broadway at 60th St. (212-258-9595)—Nov. 18-20: Celebrating her eightieth birthday, the singer Sheila Jordan can look back at a career virtually free of commercial compromise. If her voice has faltered a bit, the inventiveness and daring that first brought her attention in the late fifties remain in evidence. Her new album, “Winter Sunshine,” is her twenty-first release.

FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY

540 Park Ave., at 61st St. (212-339-4095)—Nov. 18-29: Chita Rivera. The Tony-winning legend is still agile and game to entertain after more than five decades on the stage.

JAZZ STANDARD

116 E. 27th St. (212-576-2232)—The past decade has seen a flowering of gifted young trumpeters who are well versed in post-bop forms but willing to expand upon them. Among the more promising is Jeremy Pelt, whose quintet (here Nov. 20-23) includes J. D. Allen on tenor saxophone.

VILLAGE VANGUARD

178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th St. (212-255-4037)—Nov. 18-23: Ravi Coltrane, having successfully dodged his father’s looming shadow despite playing the same instruments (tenor and soprano saxophone), has firmly established himself as one of the more capable players of his generation. Like his father, Coltrane has maintained a cohesive quartet; Ravi’s includes the gifted pianist Luis Perdomo. The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra holds sway on Mondays.

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